Biographical sketches of authors
Nicholas S. Bowen
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail bowenn@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Bowen received the B.S. degree in
computer science from the University of Vermont, the M.S. degree in
computer engineering from Syracuse University, and the Ph.D. in
electrical and computer engineering from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. He joined IBM at East Fishkill, New York, in
1983 and moved to the Research Center in 1986, where he is currently
the Department Group Manager of Servers. He is a senior member of IEEE
and a member of ACM. His research interests are operating systems,
computer architecture, and fault-tolerant computing.
David A. Elko
IBM S/390 Division, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic
mail david_elko@vnet.ibm.com). Dr. Elko is currently with the
S/390 architecture group in Austin, Texas. He joined IBM Poughkeepsie
in 1980, worked in the MVS and S/390 architecture groups, and moved to
IBM Austin in 1995, joining the server group staff. Dr. Elko received a
B.S. degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. His
research interests are computer architecture, number theory, and
topology.
John F. Isenberg, Jr.
Isenberg & Hall, Inc., 29 Thornwood Drive, Poughkeepsie, New
York 12603 (electronic mail jacki@us3.global.ibmmail.com).
Before he retired from IBM, Mr. Isenberg was involved in the
design of the System/390 Parallel Sysplex. As part of this design work,
he was a coinventor on seven key system patents, was a member of the
Parallel Sysplex hardware and software design councils, and led the
design efforts to achieve continuous availability in the Parallel
Sysplex structure. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from
Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from
Syracuse University.
George W. Wang
IBM China Research Laboratory, 4/F No. 26, 6th Street, Shangdi Haidian
District, Beijing 10085, P.R. China. Dr. Wang is currently the
director of the IBM China Research Laboratory. He joined IBM's
Research Division as a research staff member in 1978 at the Thomas J.
Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr. Wang's
research activity has concentrated on operating systems, database
management, parallel processing, and distributed systems. He has held
several IBM Research management positions and was named to his current
position in December 1994. Dr. Wang has been recognized for his
research accomplishments and has earned IBM's Outstanding Technical
Achievement, Outstanding Contribution, and Outstanding Innovation
Awards, and an IBM Corporate Award. Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. degree in
experimental physics from Columbia University in New York City in 1977
and a master of science degree in computer science from the same
university in 1978.
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